Healthcare Providers
The nursing profession
What constitutes the largest group of healthcare professionals?
From the colonial times to the late 1800s.
When was the preindustrial era?
Stands for the American Medical Association.
What does AMA stand for?
It is also called Voluntary Health Insurance
What is private insurance also called?
It was introduced in the 1990s when there was technology advances.
When was telemedicine introduced?
They diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
What is a dentist?
Also called a poorhouse.
What's another name for almshouse?
He was referred to as the father of antiseptic surgery.
What is Joseph Lister often referred to as?
Starting in 1974
When did Blue cross and Blue shield begin to merge?
managed care organizations
What does MCOs stand for?
They evaluate a patient’s health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment.
What do Physicians do?
It did not require a rigorous course of study, clinical practice, residency training, board exams, and licensing.
What did medical practice lack during this time?
Harvard Medical School
What medical school revolutionized and changed the system of education?
They are financed by the government.
How are medicare and medicaid financed?
telemedicine refers to video examinations and refers to health care information and services offered over the Internet by professionals and nonprofessionals.
What's the difference between telemedicine and e-health?
A Pharmacy degree requiring 6 years of postsecondary education.
What is required in order to become a pharmacist?
to isolate people who had contracted a contagious disease
What was the main reason to use a pesthouse?
By the 1960s.
When the concept of community mental health introduced?
Medicaid covers only the very poor and medicare covers the elderly.
What is the main difference between medicaid and medicare?
provide a full array of health care services, including hospital inpatient care, surgical services in both inpatient and outpatient settings, primary care and multispecialty outpatient services, home health care, long-term care, and specialized rehabilitation services.
What can large integrated delivery systems provide?
MDs are trained in allopathic medicine and DOs are trained in Osteopathic medicine.
What are the similarities between MDs and Dos?
it was intended to prevent aimlessly wandering people with serious mental illness from being put in jail
What is another reason why mental patients were put in an asylum?
created an increased demand for the advanced services that only trained professionals could provide
What did science-based medicine create a demand of?
emerged in the form of worker's compensation.
What was the first form of broad health insurance in America?
Since the 1990s, managed care has become the primary source for health insurance and the delivery of medical services to the majority of Americans.
What has been the primary source for health insurance?